simpler
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈsɪmplɚ/, /ˈsɪmpəlɚ/
- comparative form of simple, less complicated or challenging.
simpler (plural simplers)
- (archaic) One who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs).
- 1781, Daines Barrington, Miscellanies ↗, Essay VII, On the Linnæan System, page 273:
- One of the great pleasures in botany is, to produce a rather uncommon plant to those who know it to be curious; but the English botanist will not have much satisfaction in shewing it to a simpler, who is not acquainted with it under the name given by Gerard or Ray.
- 1833, William Hogarth, Anecdotes of William Hogarth: written by himself ↗, page 48:
- … may with no great impropriety be termed going a simpling; but with this special difference, that your field simpler never picks up a nettle for a marsh-mallow; a mistake which your tour simpler is very liable to.
- 1781, Daines Barrington, Miscellanies ↗, Essay VII, On the Linnæan System, page 273:
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